> The FDA would require that those two extra months usually aren't spent suffering unbearable additional side effects from the treatment, I can't speak about F

> The FDA would require that those two extra months usually aren't spent suffering unbearable additional side effects from the treatment, I can't speak about FDA, but I can speak about NICE and the Cancer Drugs Fund. NICE was set up to look at the cost effectiveness of medications and treatments. They were refusing to recommend new cancer drugs. This was politically tricky, so the Cancer Drugs Fund was set up to provide novel meds. We spent over £1bn on it, and most of the drugs provided no meaningful benefit and caused harm. https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097 https://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2097